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  "type": "water",
  "pwsid": "OH4801612",
  "name": "Whitehouse Village",
  "county": "Lucas",
  "population": 5200,
  "producer": false,
  "source_class": "erie",
  "label": "Lake Erie",
  "bodies": [
    "Lake Erie"
  ],
  "intakes": [],
  "wells": null,
  "aquifer": "",
  "notes": "",
  "urls": [],
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  "facts": {
    "hist": [
      [
        "2002",
        "In November 2002 Whitehouse abandoned its village well system and connected to the Lucas County Water System, which in turn contracts with the City of Toledo for Lake Erie water."
      ],
      [
        "2017-2018",
        "Whitehouse exceeded the TTHM maximum contaminant level in four consecutive quarters — 0.082, 0.089, 0.083 and 0.081 mg/L against an 0.080 mg/L limit, from Q2 2017 through Q1 2018. Ohio EPA recorded…"
      ],
      [
        "2022",
        "Ohio EPA issued the village a notice of violation of the Consumer Confidence Rule on January 7, 2022 for failing to provide customers the annual report on drinking water quality."
      ],
      [
        "2023",
        "Whitehouse's supplier, Toledo's Collins Park plant, failed to provide adequate filtration on March 15, 2023; filters 1-10 and basins 1-2 were upgraded and placed online March 27, 2023. Only 90.9% of…"
      ],
      [
        "2025",
        "170.759 million gallons of Toledo-supplied water passed through the village system, a 9.03% increase over 2024, with a peak day of 0.849 MG on September 2."
      ],
      [
        "2026",
        "New rate and fee schedule effective January 1, 2026: $19.44 monthly minimum for the first 2,000 gallons and $9.72 per 1,000 gallons thereafter inside the village."
      ]
    ],
    "treat": "Whitehouse does no treatment of its own. It buys fully treated Lake Erie water from the City of Toledo's Collins Park Water Treatment Plant through an agreement with Toledo and Lucas County. Toledo's intake sits a considerable distance offshore in Lake Erie, which the village's report credits with…",
    "press": "Not published. No village pressure-zone map or psi figures appear in the water quality reports, the fee schedule or the water and sewer service pages.",
    "rate": {
      "g": 9.72,
      "n": "Effective January 1, 2026 (Schedule of Rates and Fees, Exhibit A). Inside the village: $19.44 minimum for one month or up to 2,000 gallons, then $9.72 per 1,000 gallons, plus a…",
      "m": 41.38
    },
    "imp": [
      [
        "TTHM (Total Trihalomethanes)",
        "59.35",
        "ppb",
        "80 (MCL)",
        "2025",
        "Highest annual average; single-sample range 22.7-65.9 across quarterly distribution monitoring. No violation."
      ],
      [
        "HAA5 (Haloacetic Acids)",
        "10.10",
        "ppb",
        "60 (MCL)",
        "2025",
        "Highest annual average; range 4.5-10.4. No violation."
      ],
      [
        "Nitrate (as N)",
        "1.22",
        "ppm",
        "10 (MCL)",
        "2025",
        "Range <0.1-2.36. No violation."
      ],
      [
        "Fluoride",
        "1.00",
        "ppm",
        "4 (MCL)",
        "2025",
        "Range 0.98-1.06."
      ],
      [
        "Chlorite",
        "0.07",
        "ppm",
        "1 (MCL)",
        "2022",
        "Range <0.10-0.14; byproduct of disinfection at the Toledo plant."
      ],
      [
        "Chlorine (as Cl2)",
        "1.24",
        "ppm",
        "4 (MRDL)",
        "2025",
        "Range 1.18-1.32."
      ],
      [
        "Lead (90th percentile)",
        "1.1",
        "ppb",
        "15 (action…",
        "2025",
        "Zero samples exceeded the action level."
      ],
      [
        "Copper (90th percentile)",
        "0.04",
        "ppm",
        "1.3 (action…",
        "2024",
        "Zero samples exceeded the action level."
      ],
      [
        "PFOA",
        "0.0012",
        "ppb",
        "4 ppt (2024…",
        "2025",
        "UCMR5 monitoring; average 0.0012 ppb, range ND-0.0012. PFOS averaged 0.00096 ppb and PFBS 0.0011 ppb."
      ],
      [
        "Turbidity (% of samples meeting…",
        "90.9",
        "%",
        "95% required",
        "2023",
        "The one violation on the regulated table, tied to Toledo's March 2023 filtration failure. In 2025 the highest single…"
      ]
    ],
    "proj": [
      [
        "Collins Park WTP infrastructure improvements ('The Plan')",
        null,
        "2023-2025",
        "under construction",
        "Toledo's ongoing multi-year upgrade of the regional plant that supplies Whitehouse; filters 1-10 and basins 1-2 were upgraded and placed online March 27, 2023…"
      ],
      [
        "Whitehouse lead service line survey",
        null,
        "2026",
        "completed",
        "The village published its lead line survey results in January 2026 under the Lead and Copper Rule Revisions."
      ]
    ],
    "plan": [
      [
        "Continued Collins Park WTP capital program",
        null,
        "",
        "planned",
        "The City of Toledo continues phased plant improvements on behalf of the Toledo Regional Water Commission, whose members include Toledo, Sylvania, Maumee…"
      ]
    ],
    "stress": "Low direct stress on quantity but total dependence on someone else's source: Whitehouse abandoned its wells in 2002 and now has no supply of its own, so its water security rides entirely on Toledo's Lake Erie intake and the Toledo Regional Water Commission. The exposure is to Lake Erie's harmful algal bloom and turbidity risk at the…",
    "sew": {
      "s": "The village operates its own sanitary collection system, pumping sewage through several lift stations to the Regional Pump Station on Finzel Road and from there to the Lucas County Wastewater Treatment Plant on Jerome Road. Sewer is billed at $13.82 per month for the first 2,000 gallons and $6.91 per 1,000 thereafter inside the village…",
      "st": "Separate storm sewer system with its own stormwater management and pollution prevention programs; the storm sewer tap fee for village residents is $100. No specific flooding problem is documented."
    },
    "fun": [
      "Whitehouse gave up its own wells in November 2002 — its tap water now starts at a Toledo intake set a considerable distance offshore in Lake Erie and reaches the village through Lucas County pipes.",
      "The village asks residents not to do laundry on Thursdays, because that is hydrant flushing day and the water can run discolored for a while.",
      "Toledo's Collins Park plant collected 48 raw-water samples for Giardia and Cryptosporidium between April 2015 and March 2022 and found exactly one Cryptosporidium cell in the whole run.",
      "The 2026 fee schedule prices a water shut-off and turn-on at $20, but tampering with a meter or unauthorized hydrant use costs $250 each.",
      "Whitehouse holds a 'green' license to operate from Ohio EPA — issued without any special conditions."
    ],
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        "https://data.epa.gov/efservice/VIOLATION/PWSID/OH4801612/JSON",
        "https://whitehouseoh.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Fee-Schedule-2026.pdf"
      ],
      "treatment": [
        "https://whitehouseoh.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2025-Water-Quality-Report.pdf",
        "https://whitehouseoh.gov/departments/public-service/water-sewer-services/"
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        "https://whitehouseoh.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Fee-Schedule-2026.pdf"
      ],
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        "https://whitehouseoh.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2025-Water-Quality-Report.pdf",
        "https://whitehouseoh.gov/departments/public-service/water-quality/",
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      "planned": [
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      ],
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        "https://whitehouseoh.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Fee-Schedule-2026.pdf"
      ],
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        "https://whitehouseoh.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2025-Water-Quality-Report.pdf",
        "https://whitehouseoh.gov/departments/public-service/water-sewer-services/",
        "https://whitehouseoh.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Fee-Schedule-2026.pdf"
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